The company sued because of these documents, which it says proves there was a binding agreement in place in 2001.

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Rather, this policy will be ineffective because it will relax constraints that are not binding in the first place.

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It is understood, however, that Mr Cable is close to succumbing to pressure from the Association of British Insurers, among others, for new binding votes on companies' pay to take place only every three years, rather than annually.

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Polls showed Gephardt and former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean battling neck-and-neck for first place in Iowa, home to 2004's first binding presidential election.

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Under the agreement the EU will place its current emission-cutting pledges inside the legally-binding Kyoto Protocol, a key demand of developing countries.

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There's no question that most of the talk between Google and EU regulators over the firm's search ranking practices have taken place behind closed doors, but now the antitrust inquiry is one step closer to a binding resolution.

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Many of these resent whipping decisions which put them between a rock and a hard place, and wish the government had shrugged, noted that the motion would not have been binding and downplayed the whole thing...

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